Bill Mollison's definitive work on permaculture design — the book that took the system he developed with David Holmgren in Tasmania in the 1970s and turned it into a practical manual that has been used by designers, farmers and communities around the world ever since.
The log and journal kept by Dr William Russ Pugh during his 1835 voyage from England to New Holland — transcribed, annotated and published by retired Launceston anaesthetist Dr John Paull in 2017. Pugh arrived in Hobart in December 1835 and walked north to Launceston, where he established a medical practice that would make history.
A practical Australian gardening guide by Peter Cundall — the much-loved Tasmanian gardening personality who presented ABC's Gardening Australia for many years.
Peter Manchester's comprehensive guide to the fossils of Tasmania — how Tasmanian fossil evidence has helped piece together the geological history of the island's formation across hundreds of millions of years.
P.E. de Strzelecki, a Polish-born explorer and geologist, spent 1839–1843 surveying large parts of New South Wales, Gippsland and Van Diemen's Land on foot, during which he identified and named Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak. This book compiles the results of that survey — mineral assays, soil analyses and geological mapping — accompanied by a fold-out geological map, sections and diagrams, and figures of organic remains.

